I got 5 million .....

I got 5 million dollars … What to do next???

Let me start with a little background about the money I am talking about.

In the last week of year 2008 I was travelling in a bus from my aunt’s place near coorg to Mysore. There were very few people in the bus and it was moving in a small road inside a forest. When I was watching through the window, I could see lot of trees in the hilly region and some animals along the road side and it was really a pleasant experience for a person who lives in a very busy and congested city, Bangalore.

Suddenly after some time, I saw a flash of light on the window screen which appeared like a light from something special from the space. But it was some reflection of light from some other passing by vehicle. This spurred up a thought in my mind. What if the light was from a real space craft from other planet and I was witnessing some sort of space ship. As I was having a camera, I would have taken some snaps and videos of the space ship.

As my thoughts went on, I thought of selling the photographs and videos to some news channel. During these days of competitive media, I could get a very high price for the unique photos I have taken and this would give me lot of money. So, I thought of selling these to some foreign media for a whooping 5 million dollars, of course after severe negotiations and bargaining with many others. So, here now I got money, and what to do with that next ??? A big question……

So, I started converting the money into Indian rupees and it went up to 200 million rupees .. Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…. After paying up all taxes and charges, I ended up with some 140 million rupees … Still a very huge amount in my pocket … Yes. Yes... Pocket is not enough …. I Know

Now time to spend my money …. What to do with it??

First I thought of investing this money in market... get some huge returns and double the money I got … Then thought for a second... Wait … In these market conditions, I would loose most of it if goes bad … So decided to drop this idea.

Later, a new idea came in. Let me buy some property which gives a good return while I can sit and enjoy its returns throughout my life time and fulfil my dreams of visiting as many countries as possible. But…. Hold on …. Even this can make me loose money as this is also not a safe option. So what to do next ?? Very confused.

So, decided to put the money in bank and enjoy the safe returns from it and invest the money I got from it as well as spend them to fulfil my dreams…. Feels very good.

In the mean time, of topic, I was thinking what will happen to people around me, how will they react??? I guess some of them will feel happy for me …. Some will buy a camera and roam around in forest to find similar opportunities …. Some will blame their fate not to get this type of opportunity … Some will say the money I got is by fluke and they are not hard earned … Some will say – ‘no big deal’ .. Some will not care … Some will … Some will ….

What will happen with my family … I will have very less time to spend with them, I may need to hire some one to look after them … Even I may not have time to spend with my doggie …. Is it all worth it ?????????

Hold on … Where am I now ?? I am still in the same bus .. no space ship .. no photos .. no money .. Huhhhh.

Then all these seemed to be hypothetical and impossible to happen. As the bus went passed the forest, I started thinking again. This time, a more realistic option.

Why not make this unrealistic story or thinking as a blog. I started thinking on writing a blog about this whole episode. This blog would become so popular that daily I would get thousands of hits. This would encourage me write some more blogs and I would become a professional blogger.

One fine day … A publisher comes in and says he wants rights to publish all my blogs as a book and he will be ready to pay me lot of money … An this happens to be 5 million dollars again ... Here the story begins again … What to do with that money …… Invest in markets ??? …. Invest in property ??? ….. Put it in bank ?????...... World trip … Buy a hotel ??? …. Beeep beeeeeeeeeeeeep … Honk….Honkkkkkkkkkk… Beeeeeeeeep ….. What the heck ???? I felt some one pushing me and saying something … “ vinu eddelo … mysore Bantu …. ( Vinu get up …. We reached mysore” … Huhhhhhhhhhhhhh. When I opened my eyes and looked around , I could see buildings, vehicles, people people and lots of people, noise … pollution …. And felt some one saying “ Welcome to concrete Jungle dude”.

After all these... There was one question that was not completely answered …

“I got 5 million … What to do next??”